Janet Snyder
Associate Professor
BA, Wichita State University; MFA University of Wisconsin, Madison; MA, M. Phil, Ph.D., Columbia University
Janet Snyder joined the WVU faculty in 1997. Dr. Snyder received the Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University where her fields were Medieval art and architecture and Native American art. She received the MFA in Design for Theatre from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Dr. Snyder's dissertation examined the representation of textiles and clothing in northern French stone sculpture and as a participant in the Limestone Sculpture Provenance Project, her subsequent work has addressed the manufacture of this sculpture. Her publications, papers, and lectures emphasize the context for medieval sculpture. She is co-editor of “Blanche Lazzell: The Life and Work of an American Modernist” (WVU Press, 2004). Her research has benefited from various grants and awards and she has participated in several NEH Seminars. She has talked at the International Congress for Medieval Art, the International Medieval Congress at Leeds, the Cloisters of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and various art conferences. She has been active in AVISTA, Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science and Art, and presently serves on the boards of the Midwest Art History Society, the Southeast College Art Conference, and the Advisory Board of the West Virginia University Press.
Dr. Snyder's Sabbatical leave project during spring 2005 is “Images as Ideas: Reading twelfth-century sculpture as documents of contemporary thought.”
Her teaching fields are Ancient and Medieval European art and architecture, the art of northern Europe during the Renaissance, and the visual culture of Native North Americans.
